# mcgillrarebooks fridayfeeling summer2018 cork botany

Once a botanist, always a botanist. At a party, a friend was asked what she did - ‘botany’. Her questioner shocked exclaimed ‘lobotomy?!’

‘Pretty much’, she said...

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2018-07-04

Facsimile illustrations from Historia Plantarum by Swiss botanist, physician, and linguist, Conrad Gessner (1516-1565). https://t.co/mUi9AUI6V2

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2018-06-22

Henry Jones Thaddeus' unfinished Portrait of a Gentleman (c.1903) is of artist, botanist, historian, and Irish lace expert Michael Holland (1855-1950). See it on our Grand Staircase! Incidentally, Holland lived at North Mall, Cork: https://t.co/4epUR9IQ6E

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2018-04-03

Galmanac outtakes 1: Chibi heads that I ended up having no use for! This is the botanist, dragoon and soldier

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2017-08-24

Christopher Dresser, designer and botanist, sent specimens to the Kew Museum of Economic Botany in 1860. Great moment!

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2017-04-24

Hervey was a clergyman, botanist, phycologist, and bryologist - specialized in marine algae. https://t.co/bzXyS3pxDE

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2017-01-27

Hervey was a clergyman, botanist, phycologist, and bryologist - specialized in marine algae. https://t.co/bzXyS3pxDE

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2016-02-21

Hieronymus Bock, German botanist, developed a more scientific method for classifying plants in his 1552 work

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2015-11-27